Alison Bechdel has won a MacArthur “genius” grant. T o celebrate, I wrote a short story fictionalizing the events leading up to the award, but I realized there were no female characters in it, which didn’t seem appropriate. So I wrote a second draft, which had a couple women in it, but they spent all their time talking about John D. MacArthur.
This is tougher than you’d think, man.